[rsyslog] Problems with IncludeConfig

[Rainer Gerhards]

Lol... the initial message seems not to have passed my spam filter... ;)

I, too, tend to option three. The problem, though is
backwards-compatibility... Any suggestions and concerns are appreciated.

I'll look at the code to see how much work that creates. I think the
complexity is quite acceptable. I am right now in a threading redesign,
so I'd like to push this away for a little while... Anyhow, please keep
comments floating - I'll listen and drop in any thoughts I have.

Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-
> bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 9:56 AM
> To: rsyslog-users
> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Problems with IncludeConfig
> 
> Michael Biebl wrote:
> > the current IncludeConfig implementation has some issues, especially
> > for distributers:
> > All files in the directory as specified by $IncludeConfig are
> included.
> > This means, temp files like *~ *.bak etc that are left behind by
> > editors, or stuff like *.rpmsave or *.dpkg-old/*.dpkg-new.
> > This is obviously unfortunate.
> >
> > How shall we solve this?
> > 1.) I patched the Debian package to only include files ending with
> > *.conf. If we document that properly this is imho an acceptable
> > solution.
> > 2.) Implement an internal blacklist of endings that are ignored (see
> above)
> > 3.) Instead of hardcoding the file ending to *.conf (as in 1.), use
> > the same syntax as e.g. apache, which allows to specify shell globs:
> > example:
> > Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/*.conf
> 
> i would opt for the third option - thou i'm not sure how much work
> this creates ;)
> 
> cheers,
> raoul
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